This format does not accommodate a prose paraphrase of the
entire selection from line 210 to 309, but I can render a portion of the selection into
a prose paraphrase upon which you might draw to paraphrase the rest. I'll start at line
268 and end at 295:
"The jealous keys of truth's eternal
doors
"If it be but a world of
agony."--
PROSE
PARAPHRASE:
"Eternal truths would have still
been kept away as though locked by eternal doors if Bacon had not entered into
philosophical discussion and unbarred the caves of thought and revealed the treasures of
wisdom that even poets quell with their poetic song, which gives the strain of living
truth, if truth be thought of as a contagion to the vein that causes authors to suffer
vile pain, since words of truth are seeds of misery," said the leader speaking in the
dream vision.
"My words were seeds of misery even as the deeds of
others," the leader said, pointing to Caesars up to Constantine--all laden with
crimes--and to Anarchs who murder and force into being ruling lineages that spread
plague and blood and the greed for gold abroad. He pointed also to Popes Gregory and
John, men divine, who rose up to separate man from God through teaching shadows (not
truths) that overpowered and quenched the true Sun. "Their power," he said, "was given
but to destroy--to create but a world of agony."
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